Friday, September 4, 2009

Its taken ages to come up with AEGIS

We've been planning a mapping portal to integrate near-real time data from agencies with static base data through a web page for a while now - I'm sure you've heard... For about the last month Adrienne (our BA) has been saying what are we going to call this thing???

Well... (trumpet flourish)... AEGIS MAP Aegis” an ancient reference to a cloak or shield that symbolises protection by a higher authority.

AEGIS also stands for Agency Enhanced Geographic Information System.

So, we've talked about it, designed it, talked about it some more and redesigned it, tweeked it and talked about it some more. Told people we're doing it, blogged about it, made a website about it, got a cool name for it...

Can we build it??? YES... we can! (thanks Bob). Edward has returned from the US and is champing at the bit to start writing up the code. I'm sure that in the very near future we'll have a prototype to test drive. We'll keep you posted.

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